How To Protect Your Gmail Account From Hackers?
- By Georgia Bolton
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- 16 Oct, 2017
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As our technology is developing in great speed, cheaters and hackers are also increasing their tricks to affect the technical and professional areas of the society to harass people. Cyber crimes are increasing day by day and one of the biggest problem users are facing is “Hacking”. Gmail Support informs its users in this blog to use some important measures in order to avoid hackers and make their accounts more strong so that it cannot be misused. Go through the steps carefully and apply these in your Gmail account:
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- Enable 2-Step Verification: Gmail offers a security code sign-in called as “2 Stage verification” which add an extra to the security of your account. If this is enabled you will get an OTP on your phone number each time you log in. So to enable it, log in to your Gmail account and go to settings and provide your phone number to receive code for each log in attempt.
- Strong Password: Create a strong password for secure log-in. It is recommended that user the numbers, symbols, lower and upper case characters to create a strong password so that your account cannot be hacked. In case you forget your password you can recover it by the help of experts. Also keep changing your password after some time and never share it with anyone otherwise your privacy will be at risk.
- Delete session cookies: Specific HHTPS and SSL settings protect account so that it cannot be hacked using the session cookies. Regularly login using these settings to avoid any issue.
- Remove Spam message from inbox:
Spam messages join pernicious associations or virus link that enable cheat codes on the email, which permits the developer to track your account info. So spamming may take you to hacking trap that is why it is strongly recommended to delete all the spam messages time-to-time that are noticed in your inbox or any folder where your emails are kept.
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In this blog, Gmail technical support is talking about the IMAP settings that help you in reading your messages on other email accounts. IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. In simple words, by enabling this feature in your account, you will be able to see all your Gmail messages on any other accessing platform such as Hotmail, Outlook and BigPond etc.